This study examines how the issue of a Swedish Nato membership was portrayed in the Swedish media in the spring of 2022, following how Sweden went on to submit for Nato membership in May following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. The study focuses on political journalism from Sweden’s four largest newspapers: Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expresssen and Svenska Dagbladet. Both news articles and texts by political commentators are analyzed. Previous research has found that political journalism tends to frame news about politics as a game in favour of politics as issues. Using frame analysis the main question for this study is: How was the NATO issue described in the political journalism in 2022 - as a political issue or as a political game? This question will be answered with the help of previous research in the research area of framing and with a theoretical framework based on framing-processes. Framing-processes describe how different types of frames are created and this will be the basis for this study's analysis. The study's methodological approach is based on a qualitative content analysis in the form of a linguistic text analysis. This method will be applied on news articles selected from the four largest newspapers in Sweden in order to find out how the NATO issue was portrayed in Swedish media during the spring of 2022. The findings show that about 60 percent of the articles framed the topic as a political game and 40 percent as a political issue.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-528351 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Lundgren, Petter, Willershausen, Marcus |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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